Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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I am not meet for petty men, slack their spirit: They know not, they, what day the Chief was made, what hour of the fine day was born the owner, what a beast they keep with its silver head. When we went with Arthur, a sorry strife, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hoar-side.
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Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
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Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
